Joseph Carson (pharmacist)

Joseph Carson (born April 19, 1808, Philadelphia; died December 30, 1876) was a United States physician and medical botanist.

Photograph of Joseph Carson (circa 1860)

Biography

He was privately schooled in Philadelphia,[1] graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1826, and from the Medical School of the University in 1830.[2] He began a practice in 1832, which emphasized obstetrics. He studied botany throughout his life.[1] From 1836 to 1850, he was professor of materia medica in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. He held a similar chair in the University of Pennsylvania from 1850 to 1876. In 1870 he was president of the national convention for the revision of the United States Pharmacopeia.[2] He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1844.[3]

Works

For a number of years he was an associate editor of the American Journal of Pharmacy. He edited Jonathan Pereira's Elements of Materia Medica (1843; 2d ed., 2 vols., 1845) and J. Forbes Royle's Materia Medica and Therapeutics (1847);[2] he published Illustrations of Medical Botany (1847) to which he contributed many drawings.[1] The standard author abbreviation Carson is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]

Family

He married Mary Goddard in 1841 and Sarah Hollingsworth in 1848. With the latter he had four children.[1]

References
  1. Francis Randolph Packard (1929). "Carson, Joseph". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  2. Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Carson, Joseph" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
  3. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  4. International Plant Names Index.  Carson.
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